Selling Science In The Age Of Newton

Author : Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317057345

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Selling Science in the Age of Newton by Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth Pdf

Selling Science in the Age of Newton explores an often ignored avenue in the popularization of science. It is an investigation of how advertisements in London newspapers (from approximately 1687 to 1727) enticed consumers to purchase products relating to science: books, lecture series, and instruments. London's readers were among the first in Europe to be exposed to regular newspapers and the advertisements contained in them. This occurred just as science began to captivate the nation's imagination due, in part, to Isaac Newton's rising popularity following the publication of his Principia (1687). This unique moment allows us to see how advertising helped shape the initial public reception of science. This book fills a substantial gap in our understanding of science and the culture in which it developed by examining the medium of advertising and its function in the discourse of both early-modern science and commerce. It answers questions such as: what happens to science once it is a commodity; how are consumers tempted to purchase science amidst a sea of other commodities; how is the reading public encouraged to give social acceptance to facts of nature; and how did marketing campaigns craft newspapers readers into a source of validation for the items of science advertised? In an age where the production of scientific knowledge increasingly relied upon sales to many rather than the endorsement of a single wealthy patron, marketing was the key to success.

Author : Dr Jeffrey R Wigelsworth
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781409481959

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Selling Science in the Age of Newton by Dr Jeffrey R Wigelsworth Pdf

Selling Science in the Age of Newton explores an often ignored avenue in the popularization of science. It is an investigation of how advertisements in London newspapers (from approximately 1687 to 1727) enticed consumers to purchase products relating to science: books, lecture series, and instruments. London's readers were among the first in Europe to be exposed to regular newspapers and the advertisements contained in them. This occurred just as science began to captivate the nation's imagination due, in part, to Isaac Newton's rising popularity following the publication of his Principia (1687). This unique moment allows us to see how advertising helped shape the initial public reception of science. This book fills a substantial gap in our understanding of science and the culture in which it developed by examining the medium of advertising and its function in the discourse of both early-modern science and commerce. It answers questions such as: what happens to science once it is a commodity; how are consumers tempted to purchase science amidst a sea of other commodities; how is the reading public encouraged to give social acceptance to facts of nature; and how did marketing campaigns craft newspapers readers into a source of validation for the items of science advertised? In an age where the production of scientific knowledge increasingly relied upon sales to many rather than the endorsement of a single wealthy patron, marketing was the key to success.

Author : John G. Burke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520362703

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The Uses of Science in the Age of Newton by John G. Burke Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.

Author : Anna Marie Roos,Gideon Manning
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031097225

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Collected Wisdom of the Early Modern Scholar by Anna Marie Roos,Gideon Manning Pdf

This book brings together leading scholars in the history of science, history of universities, intellectual history, and the history of the Royal Society, to honor Professor Mordechai Feingold. The essays collected here reflect the impact Feingold's scholarship has had on a range of fields and address several topics, including: the dynamic pedagogical techniques employed in early modern universities, networks of communication through which scientific knowledge was shared, experimental techniques and knowledge production, the life and times of Isaac Newton, Newton's reception, and the scientific culture of the Royal Society. Modeling the interdisciplinary approaches championed by Feingold as well as the essential role of archival studies, the volume attests to the enduring value of his scholarship and sets a benchmark for future work in the history of science and its allied fields.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004324930

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How Scientific Instruments Have Changed Hands by Anonim Pdf

This collection of essays discusses the marketing of scientific and medical instruments from the eighteenth century to the First World War. It features case-studies from the United Kingdom, the Americas and Europe.

Author : Jonathan Daly
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441118516

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The Rise of Western Power by Jonathan Daly Pdf

The West's history is one of extraordinary success; no other region, empire, culture, or civilization has left so powerful a mark upon the world. The Rise of Western Power charts the West's achievements-representative government, the free enterprise system, modern science, and the rule of law-as well as its misdeeds-two frighteningly destructive World Wars, the Holocaust, imperialistic domination, and the Atlantic slave trade. Adopting a global perspective, Jonathan Daly explores the contributions of other cultures and civilizations to the West's emergence. Historical, geographical, and cultural factors all unfold in the narrative. Adopting a thematic structure, the book traces the rise of Western power through a series of revolutions-social, political, technological, military, commercial, and industrial, among others. The result is a clear and engaging introduction to the history of Western civilization.

Author : Tina Skouen,Ryan Stark
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004283701

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Rhetoric and the Early Royal Society by Tina Skouen,Ryan Stark Pdf

The Royal Society’s establishment in 1660 signaled a new beginning for the rhetoric of science, mainly because the organization’s founders advocated a modern plain style for scientific communication. Rhetoric and the Early Royal Society aims to initiate fresh debates about this watershed event in the history of rhetoric and science. In the last twenty years, scholars in numerous disciplines have produced significant work, ranging from theoretical essays to case studies of founding members such as Wilkins, Hooke and Boyle. This is the first book to collect in one volume the key contributions. The newly written introduction by editors Skouen and Stark places the reprinted essays into perspective by evaluating the Society’s pioneering role in shaping modern scholarly communication.

Author : William Deringer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674985971

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Calculated Values by William Deringer Pdf

Modern political culture features a deep-seated faith in the power of numbers to find answers, settle disputes, and explain how the world works. Whether evaluating economic trends, measuring the success of institutions, or divining public opinion, we are told that numbers don’t lie. But numbers have not always been so revered. Calculated Values traces how numbers first gained widespread public authority in one nation, Great Britain. Into the seventeenth century, numerical reasoning bore no special weight in political life. Complex calculations were often regarded with suspicion, seen as the narrow province of navigators, bookkeepers, and astrologers, not gentlemen. This changed in the decades following the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Though Britons’ new quantitative enthusiasm coincided with major advances in natural science, financial capitalism, and the power of the British state, it was no automatic consequence of those developments, William Deringer argues. Rather, it was a product of politics—ugly, antagonistic, partisan politics. From Parliamentary debates to cheap pamphlets, disputes over taxes, trade, and national debt were increasingly conducted through calculations. Some of the era’s most pivotal political moments, like the 1707 Union of England and Scotland and the 1720 South Sea Bubble, turned upon calculative conflicts. As Britons learned to fight by the numbers, they came to believe, as one calculator wrote in 1727, that “facts and figures are the most stubborn evidences.” Yet the authority of numbers arose not from efforts to find objective truths that transcended politics, but from the turmoil of politics itself.

Author : Chet Van Duzer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004523838

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Frames that Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps by Chet Van Duzer Pdf

This lavishly illustrated book is the first systematic exploration of cartographic cartouches, the decorated frames that surround the title, or other text or imagery, on historic maps. It addresses the history of their development, the sources cartographers used in creating them, and the political, economic, historical, and philosophical messages their symbols convey. Cartouches are the most visually appealing parts of maps, and also spaces where the cartographer uses decoration to express his or her interests—so they are key to interpreting maps. The book discusses thirty-three cartouches in detail, which range from 1569 to 1821, and were chosen for the richness of their imagery. The book will open your eyes to a new way of looking at maps.

Author : Stephanie O'Rourke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781316519028

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Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism by Stephanie O'Rourke Pdf

Innovative, alternative account of romanticism, exploring how art and science together contested the evidentiary authority of the human body.

Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015015204509

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica by Hugh Chisholm Pdf

Author : Louise Miskell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317097983

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Meeting Places: Scientific Congresses and Urban Identity in Victorian Britain by Louise Miskell Pdf

The promotion of knowledge was a major preoccupation of the Victorian era and, beginning in 1831 with the establishment of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, a number of national bodies were founded which used annual, week-long meetings held each year in a different town or city as their main tool of knowledge dissemination. Historians have long recognised the power of 'cultural capital' in the competitive climate of the mid-Victorian years, as towns raced to equip themselves with libraries, newspapers, 'Lit. and Phil.' societies and reading rooms, but the staging of the great annual knowledge festivals of the period have not previously been considered in this context. The four national associations studied are the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS), the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (NAPSS), the Royal Archaeological Institute (RAI) and the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE), who held annual meetings in 62 different provincial towns and cities from 1831 to 1884. In this book it is contended that these meetings were as important as royal visits and major civic ceremonies in providing towns with an opportunity to promote their own status and identity. By deploying a wealth of primary source material, much of which has not been previously utilised by urban historians, this book offers a new and genuinely Britain-wide perspective on a period when comparison and competition with neighbouring places was a constant preoccupation of town leaders.

Author : Elleke Boehmer,Rouven Kunstmann,Priyasha Mukhopadhyay,Asha Rogers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319513348

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The Global Histories of Books by Elleke Boehmer,Rouven Kunstmann,Priyasha Mukhopadhyay,Asha Rogers Pdf

This book is an edited volume of essays that showcases how books played a crucial role in making and materialising histories of travel, scientific exchanges, translation, and global markets from the late-eighteenth century to the present. While existing book historical practice is overly dependent on models of the local and the national, we suggest that approaching the book as a cross-region, travelling – and therefore global- object offers new approaches and methodologies for a study in global perspective. By thus studying the book in its transnational and inter-imperial, textual, inter-textual and material dimensions, this collection will highlight its key role in making possible a global imagination, shaped by networks of print material, readers, publishers and translators.

Author : Ian Inkster
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441152794

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History of Technology by Ian Inkster Pdf

This volume examines the connections between technological change and its knowledge base, focusing in particular on Europe during the Industrial Revolution.

Author : G. N. Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258912325

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Science and Social Welfare in the Age of Newton by G. N. Clark Pdf

This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.